Iowa City Municipal Airport satellite view

📍 Iowa City⬆ 668 ft2 runways

KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 20.5%

DEP / DAY

▼ 19.4%

Iowa City Municipal Airport (KIOW/IOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Iowa City, IA, 26 mi south of Cedar Rapids. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,002 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 17 arrivals and 22 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

6h ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

8 kts

270°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIOW 130652Z AUTO 27008KT 10SM CLR 22/17 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP082 T02170172

Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

40% of ops

249 land · 280 TO

31% of ops

192 land · 179 TO

17% of ops

108 land · 98 TO

13% of ops

79 land · 73 TO

Runway 25 carries 40% of operations (249 landings, 280 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 31%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

25 249 landings

UA 3%

07 192 landings

UA 4%

12 108 landings

UA 2%

30 79 landings

UA 3%

Approaches to 25 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 249 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

33.0

flights/day · 989 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 10pm · 5pm

Day vs night

60%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 33.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (42.0 vs 31.1 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (24% of 633 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	119.700	—
APCH	134.050	—
APCH	266.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	128.075	—
CD/P	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
IOWA CIT	122.300	—
OTHER	122.300	—
CEDAR RA	132.800	—
OTHER	132.800	—
CEDAR RA	328.400	—
OTHER	328.400	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 1° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

david

7/18/2007

re: Alexis Park Inn

I've never been to the airport, but I remember Jay well from the aviation Usenet groups -- he seems like a good guy, and I'm glad to hear that the hotel is still working out well.

Crash7